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ReviewJournal of neuromuscular diseases2021

Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Nertiyan Elangkovan, George Dickson

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Review in Journal of neuromuscular diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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115citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

115 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 190 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nertiyan ElangkovanCentres for Gene & Cell Therapy and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Royal Holloway - University of London, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK.
George DicksonCentres for Gene & Cell Therapy and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Royal Holloway - University of London, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK.
Royal Holloway University of London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked, muscle wasting disease that affects 1 in 5000 males. Affected individuals become wheelchair bound by the age of twelve and eventually die in their third decade due to respiratory and cardiac complications. The disease is caused by mutations in the DMD gene that codes for dystrophin. Dystrophin is a structural protein that maintains the integrity of muscle fibres and protects them from contraction-induced damage. The absence of dystrophin compromises the stability and function of the muscle fibres, eventually leading to muscle degeneration. So far, there is no effective treatment for deteriorating muscle function in DMD patients. A promising approach for treating this life-threatening disease is gene transfer to restore dystrophin expression using a safe, non-pathogenic viral vector called adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector. Whilst microdystrophin gene transfer using AAV vectors shows extremely impressive therapeutic success so far in large animal models of DMD, translating this advanced therapy medicinal product from bench to bedside still offers scope for many optimization steps. In this paper, the authors review the current progress of AAV-microdystrophin gene therapy for DMD and other treatment strategies that may apply to a subset of DMD patients depending on the mutations they carry.

Indexed as

AnimalsDependovirusDystrophinGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansMuscular Dystrophy, AnimalMuscular Dystrophy, DuchenneDMD protein, humanDystrophinadeno-associated virusantisenseduchennedystrophinexon skippingGene therapymicrodystrophinmuscular dystrophy

Identifiers

PMID34511510
PMCPMC8673537
OpenAlexW3199999033

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